As the rhetoric together with threats of a contentious hardfork (a split upward inwards the Bitcoin network) ramped upward inside the Bitcoin community inwards the days next the uncovering of a critical põrnikas inwards the Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) client, which temporarily brought downward to a greater extent than than
400 BU nodes, the publish of nodes supporting Bitcoin Core (BC) has climbed quickly over the concluding few days.
The bitter scaling ground has prompted many pro-BC members of the community to burn downward upward Full Nodes, which perform the tasks of verifying transactions together with blocks on the Bitcoin network.
But these particular servers too eat excessive amounts of upload bandwidth due to the ever-increasing size of Bitcoin's blockchain, together with node operators opened upward themselves upward to DDoS together with hacking attacks.
However, the inherent dangers of running a
Full Bitcoin Node are existence brushed aside yesteryear an increasing publish of enthusiasts every bit the likelihood of a Bitcoin split upward ratcheted upward to novel highs inwards mid-March.
Since the starting fourth dimension of this week, some 660 novel BC nodes accept come upward online, bringing the total amount of Bitcoin Core nodes to 5947 (83.37% of all nodes) on Friday, according to information compiled yesteryear
Coin.dance.
The concluding fourth dimension the Bitcoin network had together with so many BC nodes was on the 14th of August, 2015.
Bitcoin Unlimited node counts, which dipped from 764 to 410 on Tuesday, accept too climbed to an all-time high of 813 on Friday.
Server photograph yesteryear Bob Mical
